Edge of Survival by Toni Anderson

Author:Toni Anderson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2011-04-17T22:00:00+00:00

The Doc was running back and the front view was a little too distracting so he looked off into the black spruce woods that covered ridges while she took some photographs of the riverbed.

Poaching didn’t bother Daniel. In survival situations, he’d fished out of rivers whether it was legal or not. The SAS didn’t apply for permits in covert situations. No big deal. But the Doc had a thing about rules and regulations, and when you orchestrated your life around a deadly condition that needed rigid control, he could respect that.

“Let’s go.” Daniel caught her elbow and urged her back to the chopper. He wanted to get her back to the ship so she was no longer his responsibility, because he could feel himself being sucked into her problems again. On the ship it wouldn’t matter what she did. She’d be safe. “You need your insulin shot and some food.”

She didn’t know it but Daniel had gone into her room and taken spare supplies to store in the helicopter just in case a situation arose.

She didn’t argue. In fact she let him maneuver her through the shallows, stepping over the narrow braided streams, which told him she was busy plotting her revenge on the poachers.

To his surprise, she dug straight into her fanny pack, got out her glucose meter and syringes and stabbed the needle into her side. He flinched, each prick to her skin a tiny depiction of the infinite number of times she’d jabbed a needle into herself in order to survive.

That sort of discipline deserved a medal.

She opened her pack and pulled out some whole-wheat pasta concoction the ship’s cook had created specially for her. He pulled out a Mars bar.

Her plastic fork stilled over her pasta. “You are one coldhearted sonofabitch.”

Daniel grinned as caramel dripped down his chin. “I’d give you a bite but it might kill you.”

He held it away but she grabbed it off him and stole a tiny bite. “It won’t kill me.”

They finished quickly, both drinking water and eating apples as Daniel started up the machine.

“Can we fly past Frenchmans Bight?”

“Sure.” He needed to refuel anyway. Sooner they got out of here the better. He radioed his intended course of action across the airwaves and veered southeast.

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